"Well, those are your names," Inez insisted.
"You look enough like you used to when you were here before, so we can't be mistaken," said Mercedes primly.
"Can't, eh? Well, our names are Williard and Theodore no longer. We are Billiard and Toady these days. Mind you don't forget! We've come to stay till the folks get back——"
"Didn't you get our telegram telling you not to come?" demanded belligerent Susie.
"Sure we did!"
"Then why didn't you stay at home?"
"'Cause ma had the arrangements all made to go across the ocean and there wasn't anyone else to send us to. Grandma's away travelling, and Aunt Helen's kids have got scarlet fever."
"But papa's in the hospital and mamma's there nursing him," said Irene indignantly.
"Truly?" The boy called Toady spoke for the first time.
"Do you think I'm lying?"